10584 Marmite!

Try your local ethnic shops. We can get in th African and Chinese shop near us. We can also get Typhoo tea, salad cream and alsorts of curry like things.

Marmite - love it. Can't get it here in Puglia (as far as I'm aware) yet, although Carrefour may eventually add it to their foreign section as they do stock it in France. We get liberal supplies brought over everytime someone comes by care, same with tetley tea-bags

Thanks for the advice. I just need to find somewhere to buy a toaster now! :-)

[quote=barrov;99111]Thanks for the advice. I just need to find somewhere to buy a toaster now! :-)[/quote]

cant you just pop the bread under the grill to toast it? :smile:

[quote=barrov;99111]Thanks for the advice. I just need to find somewhere to buy a toaster now! :-)[/quote]

Hold the slices up in front of Berla or Bossi - they've got enough hot air to toast them for you!
[IMG]http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1820000/images/_1822643_bossi_berl_ap_150.jpg[/IMG]

:laughs:

I always have English friends bring a big jar or two as I also love the stuff (try it with cheese on a pannini).

[quote=Villa Sampaguita;101635]I always have English friends bring a big jar or two as I also love the stuff (try it with cheese on a pannini).[/quote]

Delicious - you could also try a bit disolved in your plate of ravioli (or pasta) in broth (brodo), gives the dish a new flavour alltogether!

or add it to spag bol and to cottage pie, anything with beef in ...............
Apparently mosquitos hate marmite and won't bite you if you eat a lot of it - something to do with the B vitamins in marmite

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nah .... no mozzy (or fly) problems inside the house. Don't know why the ultra sonic thingy works as on the suppliers website it says does not work with flying insects! But it does it does it does for us anyway.
Outside is another story, probably because the weather has been so good for so long - still in mid to high twenties on 4th November, there are so many flies around. horrible horrible horrible

Does anyone know what is the difference between Marmite and Vegemite so beloved of the "down-unders"?

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Lovely packaging ..that must be new!

Marmite and vegemite are very similar in taste , it depends which one you grow up with I guess.

I did a few minutes of research ......Marmite is older.

Vegemite was invented in 1923 by food technologist Dr. Cyril P. Callister when his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co, tasked him with developing a spread from brewer's yeast, following the disruption of supplies of imported yeast spreads after World War I. Vegemite was registered as a trade mark in Australia that same year. The registration was later transferred to Kraft Foods, a U.S. multinational, which has maintained an interest in Vegemite since the 1920s.

The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1902, with Marmite as its main product. By 1907, the product had become successful enough to warrant construction of a second factory at Camberwell Green in London.[3] Today, the main ingredients[4] of Marmite manufactured in the UK are yeast extract, with lesser quantities of sodium chloride (common salt), vegetable extract, niacin, thiamine, spice extracts, riboflavin, folic acid, and celery extracts, although the precise composition is a trade secret. By 1912, the discovery of vitamins was a boost for Marmite, as the spread is a rich source of the vitamin B complex; vitamin B12 is not naturally found in yeast extract, but is added to Marmite during manufacture.

Marmite was started in Burton on Trent to use the large quantities of yeast left after the brewing process.
Much as, apocryphally, Walls started making sausages to use up the rest of the pig - they were supposed to use a lot of pig fat in the ice cream.........
Don't know if thats true, but its a good story to bait vegetarian ice cream lovers.....8o)

They don't taste the same..... they don't smell the same ..... if you grew up with marmite as I did, vegemite is a no .. no ...

But TB is Vegemite good as well??? It's like Green and Blacks Organic and Oxfam Fairtrade Organic cocoas perhaps. Both have different tastes but both are delicious.

[quote=Sally Donaldson;101751]But TB is Vegemite good as well??? It's like Green and Blacks Organic and Oxfam Fairtrade Organic cocoas perhaps. Both have different tastes but both are delicious.[/quote]

sorry but for me vegemite is not good at all ....... won't go into details but it makes me want to upchuck

Thank you researchers! I alays wondered who came up with Marmite and why, now I know, a by-product of the brewing industry, that makes sense, just like Parma (and others) pigs are fed on the whey from the caseficio to fatten them up for prosciutto.

But I think marmite must be an English acquired taste from childhood, I have tried it on other nationalities and they just don't get it. Also if you are a Marmite lover, vegemite doesn't taste as zingy, its like diluted version.

I know I have post this before, but it always makes me smile.

EDWARD DE BONO, the guru of creative thinking, has been called in by the Foreign Office to help sort out the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ever willing to help, he has conjured up a solution straight from a jar - Marmite.

The celebrated master of lateral thinking is promoting supplies of the yeast extract spread as the means to resolve the region's seemingly intractable problems.

The logic, briefly, is this. A lack of zinc makes men irritable and belligerent. You get zinc in yeast, which is fine for your average lover of Mother's Pride. But in the Middle East, the bread is unleavened. Ergo, the great man says, Marmite is the answer to easing the way to peace.

[quote=deborahandricky;101784]
The logic, briefly, is this. A lack of zinc makes men irritable and belligerent. You get zinc in yeast, which is fine for your average lover of Mother's Pride. But in the Middle East, the bread is unleavened. Ergo, the great man says, Marmite is the answer to easing the way to peace.[/quote]

Except all you would get would be the Marmite Lovers fighting the [very sensible] Marmite Haters!!

. [with thanks to QI, a couple of years ago]

[quote=alan h;101790]Except all you would get would be the Marmite Lovers fighting the [very sensible] Marmite Haters!!

. [with thanks to QI, a couple of years ago][/quote]

And your point being :laughs:..........confirmed marmite eater here BTY.

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Must say, that I prefer Bovril. Its a pity though that they refined it as it was too strong for most people.
Pity they had to use yeast extract when all the problems arrived with BSE, but since 2006 they have gone back to near the original version.
Marmite (an edible yeast extract with the visual properties of an industrial lubricant)." Bill Brysons comment!!!

[quote=Forza Milano;99291]cant you just pop the bread under the grill to toast it? :smile:[/quote]
Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away for a while....

Yes Forza Milano, I could but it's not quite as handy as a toaster. I could also try writing this using a monacle, but I find contact lenses a bit more user friendly(!)

:smile:

[quote=Technically Blonde;101711]nah .... no mozzy (or fly) problems inside the house. Don't know why the ultra sonic thingy works as on the suppliers website it says does not work with flying insects! But it does it does it does for us anyway.
Outside is another story, probably because the weather has been so good for so long - still in mid to high twenties on 4th November, there are so many flies around. horrible horrible horrible[/quote]

Sorry, but I am struggling to feel sorry for you on this one. I'm out of Italy now and it's blooming freezzzzing!

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Lovely packaging ..that must be new!

Marmite and vegemite are very similar in taste , it depends which one you grow up with I guess.

I did a few minutes of research ......Marmite is older.

Vegemite was invented in 1923 by food technologist Dr. Cyril P. Callister when his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co, tasked him with developing a spread from brewer's yeast, following the disruption of supplies of imported yeast spreads after World War I. Vegemite was registered as a trade mark in Australia that same year. The registration was later transferred to Kraft Foods, a U.S. multinational, which has maintained an interest in Vegemite since the 1920s.

[B]The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1902, with Marmite as its main product[/B]. By 1907, the product had become successful enough to warrant construction of a second factory at Camberwell Green in London.[3] Today, the main ingredients[4] of Marmite manufactured in the UK are yeast extract, with lesser quantities of sodium chloride (common salt), vegetable extract, niacin, thiamine, spice extracts, riboflavin, folic acid, and celery extracts, although the precise composition is a trade secret. [B]By 1912, the discovery of vitamins was a boost for Marmite, as the spread is a rich source of the vitamin B complex; vitamin B12 is not naturally found in yeast extract, but is added to Marmite during manufacture[/B].[/quote]

Which begs the question: What the flip were the Marmite Food Extract Co. doing adding vitamin B12 to their product before vitamins had been discovered? Where did they get this mystical substance from?

I think this proves the point that Marmite is a gift form a future generation of Britons, who have/will beam/ed back the secret recipe for Marmite, from Burton upon Trent, in the year 2130, when it's true benefits become/were discovered! :bigergrin:

:nah: My apologies to all Brits, but Vegemite is nicer and you can also buy it in the UK :laughs:

Can't agree there. It's runny and you couldn't buy it in Britain when I was a Marmite baby!

[quote=Gala Placidia;106663]:nah: My apologies to all Brits, but Vegemite is nicer and you can also buy it in the UK [/quote]

:eeeek:
Vegemite nicer ?????? You [I]gotta[/I] be joking!

[B]It's 'orrible![/B] No - it's [I]worse[/I] than 'orrible - it's....it's "terrible, dreadful, frightful, repulsive, revolting, abominable, grim, hideous, gruesome, ghastly, awful" .

Long live MARMITE!!!! [IMG]http://footnotes.jinkies.org.uk/author/marmite.png[/IMG]

[quote=Carole B;106668]:eeeek:
...............[B]It's 'orrible![/B] No - it's [I]worse[/I] than 'orrible - it's....it's "terrible, dreadful, frightful, repulsive, revolting, abominable, grim, hideous, gruesome, ghastly, awful" ...............[/quote]

The very words I use for describing Marmite

.

I knew I was going to stir up trouble......:laughs:

Yeh spreading lies about Vegemite being better!!! lol